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Dr. Marco is a child neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and proceeded to UCSF for her medical school training, pediatrics and neurology residency as well as her cognitive and behavioral fellowship. She is the director of research for the UCSF Autism and Neurodevelopment Program
(ANP) and she directs the cognitive and behavioral child neurology clinic and the Autism NeuroGenetics Clinic. Dr. Marco’s research laboratory applies her clinical expertise in cognition and behavior to understanding the neural mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders related to autism, agenesis of the corpus callosum, sensory processing disorder (SPD), ADHD, and brain injury. Her laboratory is focuses on how individuals with neurodevelopmental differences process basic sensory information from perception to action using cutting edge neuroimaging techniques. Her expanding treatment projects are targeting computer training as a tool for augmenting positive brain plasticity.

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Elysa Marco, MD

This presentation will correlate the neural networks of sensory processing and the brain changes in these networks found in recent neuroimaging research in Autism and Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD). The importance of these changes as it relates to the new sensory features in the DSM-5 Autism clinical criteria will be emphasized. Sensory and attention based differences found in Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders will also be reviewed. A novel approach using sensory processing and neuroimaging will be demonstrated that includes the use of IPad technology to guide diagnosis and treatment.

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Elysa Marco, MD

This presentation will correlate the neural networks of sensory processing and the brain changes in these networks found in recent neuroimaging research in Autism and Sensory Processing Disorders (SPD). The importance of these changes as it relates to the new sensory features in the DSM-5 Autism clinical criteria will be emphasized. Sensory and attention based differences found in Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders will also be reviewed. A novel approach using sensory processing and neuroimaging will be demonstrated that includes the use of IPad technology to guide diagnosis and treatment.

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